All:I am being hit with several emails a day containing virus attachments. These emails are coming to my AVSIM.com email account. It must be because some of you have AVSIM.com email addresses in your Address Book and are infected. The worm is using your Address Book to spread itself.I ask that all of you please scan your computers with a good virus scanner.The emails are MS Patch emails or Mail Failure notifications. If any of you recieve these, DO NOT OPEN THE ATTACHMENTS. Delete immediately.MORE INFO:W32.Swen.A@mm is a mass-mailing worm that attempts to spread through file-sharing networks, such as KaZaA and IRC, and attempts to kill antivirus and personal firewall programs running on a computer. The worm arrives as an email attachment. The subject, body, and From: address of the email may vary. Some examples claim to be patches for Microsoft Internet Explorer, or delivery failure notices from qmail.W32.Swen.A@mm is similar to W32.Gibe.B@mm in function, and is written in C++.Also Known As: Swen , W32/Swen@mm , W32/Gibe-F , Worm Swen.A Infection Length: 106496 Systems Affected: Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Systems Not Affected: DOS, Linux, Macintosh, Microsoft IIS, OS/2, UNIX, Windows 3.x http://saltydogfly2.avsim.net/images/avsim_sig.jpg"Ah, the Luftwaffe - the Washington Generals of the History Channel." - Homer Simpson

Ken, I deleted the one I received, so I sure hope they aren't coming from here. I only got the one, yesterday; deleted it asmost immediately and "emptied the trash" as well upon deletion.-Lindy

I can't tell who is sending them since the virus generates invalid email headers. I can tell which ISP is sending the email.Just make sure you are clean by using a good antivirus software package.http://saltydogfly2.avsim.net/images/avsim_sig.jpg"Ah, the Luftwaffe - the Washington Generals of the History Channel." - Homer Simpson

Ken, I also got a lot of these emails, and, fortunately, was suspicious (I don't have avsim as an email address). I don't believe MS alerts users to patches this way - the best way is to go to Windows Update function and check there.

I got one too. The from address was .nl (netherlands, I believe). Kind of raised some flags, hehe.rgds,billg

I've been getting lots every day too but so far I don't appear infected (ran full scan with current defs a moment ago. I only get infected if I get into the DMZ in Administrator mode, which I learned not to do.Noel

It is getting much worse for me. I had 137 e-mail messages when I got home from work today, all but 10 were the e-mail virus with various Microsoft and Network subject lines. Norton stopped all of them, but I had to punch them all out with the delete key. Only 30 or so yesterday. I haven't been infected, but it's a real pain, and Norton is also blocking lots of them trying to leave.MDavis

I had been recieving up to 500 to 700 of these viruses on a daily basis up until 2 weeks ago. Now Im back to my regular 4 to 6 emails a day.It was not my computer that was infected, but was sent by yahoo accounts and I had at the time been a meember of a few groups there. No longer. Allen

Thanks for the heads up Ken lucky both my ISP's scan incomeing mail :) plus nortons in the background helps a lot as well :)

The latest version also renders All your .EXE's and Regedit, etc., useless. Norton will probably have an Update sometime later this AM (Saturday). Hope this helps, JackD

I've received four or five viruses via email attachment in the last month and a half (to a web-based email account) and have been wondering where they were coming from. I am extremely careful about my email accounts and it makes sense that they have been coming from AVSIM members. Not intentionaly (one would hope and believe) but there are alot of members here and one person unknowingly getting infected could spread the problem very quickly. Anyone not running Norton or McAfee these days and a firewall is begging for trouble. Microsoft doesn't send ANY attachments by email. You have to go to their site to upgrade anything. Downloading and upgrading all the Microsoft security patches are a must. Miller

I've received over 1300 of them since friday morning. At the peak they came in at 1 a minute on average.

Just goes to show how many enemies you have made :D

Yup, I got a whole bunch of them.Well I don't have a scanner but I headed a short laughter at them before they vanished in the trash.To hell with 'em.

99% come from a single Linux mailing list I posted a single message to several months ago...